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Department of Media Production staff

Head of Department (Acting)

Dr Karl Rawstrone

Dr Karl Rawstrone

Prior to his appointment as Head of Department (Acting) for Media Production, Karl was Deputy Head of the Department from 2019 and also held a number of leadership positions in the Department, including Postgraduate Programme Leader, Postgraduate Framework Leader, and Head of Education.

Recently he has been leading the Department's Research Plan and taking significant steps to enhance the research environment and bidding activities. Karl is also Deputy Chair of our Faculty Academic Standards and Education Committee (FASEC) and was a Faculty Academic Representative for Senate from 2018-21.

Prior to joining BU in 2013, Karl worked in both Further and Secondary Education for a number of years as a lecturer and teacher. He has more than 10 years of industry experience as a producer, director, and editor, working in high-end television for major broadcasters (BBC, Channel 4), smaller studios, and independent production companies.

Karl was awarded his PhD in 2020 for the thesis, Negotiating Dependence: Independent Television producers in England, an in-depth study of the leadership and organisation of this World-leading sector. His research continues to engage in media employment and organisational leadership.

Deputy Heads of Department

Annie East - Deputy Head of Department in Media Production

Annie has transferred her valuable skills and experiences of working on large broadcast drama film sets to her work at Bournemouth University. With a career spanning 18 years she has worked from runner to location manager, from first assistant director to production manager. Annie has a deep …

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Dr Phil Mathews - Deputy Head of Department in Media Production
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Dr Christopher Pullen - Associate Professor in Media and Inclusivity

Christopher Pullen is the author of a number of books focusing on sexuality and the media. His publications include the monographs 'Heroism, Celebrity and Therapy in Nurse Jackie' (Routledge, 2018), 'Pedro Zamora, Sexuality and AIDS Education: The Autobiographical Activism and The Real World' ( …

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Academic staff

Professor Richard Berger - Professor

Richard Berger is Professor of Media & Education in the Department of Media Production, Faculty of Media & Communication at BU. Richard also serves as Deputy Chair of the University's Social Sciences and Humanities Research Ethics Panel, and is part of BU's 'University of Sanctuary' …

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Liam Birtles - Senior Lecturer In Digital Media Design

An artist, designer, lecturer and researcher with over 20 years experience in creative practice with digital technologies.

Currently Program leader for BA Digital Media Design also lecturing on the BA's in Television and Media Production and MA Creative Media. A member of Emerge Research …

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Dr Jose Blazquez - Lecturer in Media Production

José M. Blázquez is a practitioner and lecturer in media production. Previously, he held two postdoctoral research positions at the Faculty of Media and Communications at Bournemouth University. His work has been published in academic journals, newspapers and other publishing venues as well as …

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Mark Bond - Senior Lecturer In Cinematography

Mark Bond is a Senior Lecturer in Cinematography in the Media Production Department and is the Programme Leader for MA Cinematography for Film and Television. His professional industry experience informs his research and teaching across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.

Mark …

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Rebecca Bond - Lecturer in Post-Production
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Dr Peri Bradley - Senior Lecturer

Peri has come to the area of Media Theory through the process of studying Art and English as an undergraduate, Film at Masters Level and TV for her PhD, all at Southampton University. Her research interests have consistently centred around the body and its representation; in literature, in art, …

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Dr Catalin Brylla - Principal Academic in Film and Television

Catalin Brylla is Principal Lecturer in Film and Television in the Faculty of Media and Communication at Bournemouth University. He teaches and researches in the areas of film spectatorship, cognitive media theory, stereotypes, representation, disability and gender. His research aims for a …

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Dr Laura Crossley - Senior Lecturer In Film

Laura's research interests include national identity, British film, nostalgia, postmodernism and post-colonialism. Her specific areas of interest are on British spy fictions, particularly on film and television. She is currently researching aspects of nostalgia culture in contemporary Cold War …

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Dr Jennifer Durrett - Lecturer in Production Management
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Annie East - Deputy Head of Department in Media Production

Annie has transferred her valuable skills and experiences of working on large broadcast drama film sets to her work at Bournemouth University. With a career spanning 18 years she has worked from runner to location manager, from first assistant director to production manager. Annie has a deep …

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Dr James Fair - Principal Academic In TV and Film Production

James graduated from Bournemouth University, University College Dublin and Staffordshire University with degrees in film and television production, and specialises in alternative models of film production. He demonstrated his work by shooting, editing and then screening feature films in seventy- …

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Dr Austin Fisher - Associate Professor of Popular Culture

I am a cultural historian, with primary research interests in the history, politics and cinema of Italy and the USA, and the cultural significance of film festivals. I have also published research on the history of exploitation cinema, transnational cinemas, and various kinds of political …

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Isabel Forrest - Senior Lecturer In Media Production
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Professor David Garcia - Professor of Digital Arts & Media Activism

Professor of Digital Arts and Media Activism. Formally Dean of Graduate School, Chelsea, Camberwell and Wimbledon Colleges of Art, University of the Arts London. Artist and curator with a strong background in institutional leadership, innovation and research.
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Dr Maxine Gee - Senior Lecturer In Screenwriting

Maxine is the Programme Leader of the BA in Scriptwriting for Film and Television. She is an internationally produced playwright, whose stage adaptation of Sherlock Holmes and the Speckled Band has been performed in both York, England and Sydney Australia. As a screenwriter, her work includes …

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Dr Trevor Hearing - Principal Academic

Trevor Hearing is a Principal Academic in the Media Production Academic Group. He draws on his background as a filmmaker to research the conceptualisation of knowledge, emotion and identity in a mediatised age. He is particularly interested in how storytelling can help us to communicate complex …

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Steve Hubbard - Senior Lecturer In Effects

Steve Hubbard is an animator by trade, and currently a Senior Lecturer in Effects. He currently works across both Media Production and Computer Animation Departments, teaching Cinematography, Storytelling and Visual Effects. In the past he has served as Programme Leader of MA Digital Effects, …

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Dee Hughes - Lecturer In Media
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Dr Samantha Iwowo - Senior Lecturer in Directing Drama for Film and Television

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1482-8269

Samantha Iwowo, is a screenwriter, director and researcher, who commenced her career as a commissioned screenwriter with South Africa’s largest cable network, M-Net.

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Dr Evi Karathanasopoulou - Principal Academic in Audio Production

I am a Principal Academic in Audio Production at Bournemouth University and work across theory and practice in the field of Audio Media. I studied classical music in Athens- Greece before moving to the UK to gain a 1st class (Hons) BA in Media Production: TV & Radio from the University of …

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Dr Henry Loeser - Lecturer In Media Entrepreneurship
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Dr Graham Majin - Senior Lecturer in Documentary

Dr Graham Majin has more than 20 years experience working in TV news, factual filmmaking and media production. He has been an on-screen reporter, news editor and senior producer - including 14 years at BBC News, during which time he regularly edited the evening news for London and the South East …

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Dr Kathryn McDonald - Principal Academic in Audio Production

Kathryn's research, practice & teaching is centred around participatory media, broadcast talk, media ethics, community engagement, radio production and broadcasting history.

Kathryn is co-editor of The Bloomsbury Handbook of Radio, to be published at the start of 2023. She is …

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Dr Claudy Op Den Kamp - Principal Academic in Film

Claudy Op den Kamp is Principal Academic in Film, and faculty member at the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy & Management. During the 2022 Spring semester, she was a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC.

She holds a PhD (Art & Media) from the University …

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Dr Simon Perkins - Senior Lecturer In Digital Media Design

Simon Perkins is an academic and design researcher in the Faculty of Media & Communication. He is a Pākehā, originally from Te Wai Pounamu (South Island) in Aotearoa New Zealand.

His current research focuses on the form of the video cut-up as a contemporary means of meta-textual …

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Stephen Rafter - Senior Lecturer in Sound Design

Steve is a Sound Designer & Lecturer whose work spans a number of creative fields including film, TV, theatre, live events, sound installation, advertising, music and education.

Steve began his Sound Design career in theatre and worked on many shows and live events in London, …

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Dr Karl Rawstrone - Deputy Head of Department in Media Production
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Martin Sharp - Lecturer In Directing Drama

Martin is a highly experienced director and producer. He has both single camera and multi camera drama directing experience, and worked for the BBC’s long running, continuing medical drama series, Casualty and Doctors as both a producer and director. He also directed and co-produced a low budget …

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Dr Sue Sudbury - Associate Professor in Media Practice

I am an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Media and Communication where I teach on our Masters in Directing Film and Television course and supervise a number of doctoral students doing practice-led research. My current students are using a range of different methods to conduct their research …

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Lizzie Sykes - Senior Lecturer In Screen Based Media

Lizzie Sykes is a Senior Lecturer working with students on BA Film and BA Media Production. Lizzie is a screen based artist and has recently completed an Arts Council England funded project at the Museum of Design in Plastics with composer Karen Wimhurst. The resulting Synthetica opera is due to …

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Dr Richard Wallis - Principal Academic

I have taught film and television at both undergraduate and post-graduate levels here in Bournemouth since 2012, and led the undergraduate programme in Media Production between 2013 and 2017. I was previously Head of Twofour Learning, the education division of the Twofour Group, and served on …

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Dr Carina Westling - Senior Lecturer in Cross-Platform Media

I am a media and cultural studies scholar and research digital media and cultures. I specialise in the tensions and opportunities formed between the technical, social and discursive aspects of multimedia environments and design for immersive, AR/VR and blended applications. I have research and …

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Dr Ashley Woodfall - Senior Principal Academic

Ashley worked in the television industry for many years before joining the teaching and research community at Bournemouth University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Higher Education Academy and lectures in media production and theory. He holds an MA in producing film and …

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Lydia Yeoman - Lecturer In Screenwriting
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Visiting and emeritus academic staff

  • Professor Kirsten Stutterheim - Visiting Professor
  • Dr Nina Perry - Visiting Fellow
  • Rogers Ofime - Visiting Academic
  • Professor Stephen Deutsch - Emeritus

​Demonstrators

Adrian Butterworth - Demonstrator In Media Production

Adrian Butterworth teaches in the media production academic group and is a member of the Centre for Film and Television Research Group. He is also a broadcast journalist, viral video producer, camera operator/editor and television studio director.
He re-joined the Faculty of Media and …

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Alan Fox - Demonstrator In Digital Media Television Production

Alan graduated from The University of Greenwich with a BSc Hons in Film and Television production (2008 - 2011) before moving on to gain an MA in Directing Digital Film and Television at Bournemouth University. (2011 - 2012).

From there he became self employed as a freelance Media …

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Gary Hayton - Demonstrator Electro Acoustic Music
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Tom Stone - Demonstrator In Television Production
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Alex Wegman - Demonstrator In Film and Television Production
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Postgraduate researchers

  • Mark Bond 
  • Antonino Chiaramonte
  • Xue Han
  • Vicky Isley
  • Areerut (Beau)Jaipadub
  • Maria Abdel Karim 
  • Michael Latto
  • Yunfei Li
  • Stuart Andrew McNally
  • Ucheyamere Chimdiebube Nkwam-Uwaoma
  • Aneta Halina Postek-Mioduszewska
  • Jessica Rose Ruddock
  • Martin Sharp
  • Reshad Somauroo
  • Lizzie Sykes
  • Francis Thomas
  • Jo Tyler 
  • Omer Uguz
  • Bing Yang 
  • Kuihua Zhang
  • Yuchen Zhou
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